A contemporary mixed-media artist exploring texture and form.
About
I’ve been creative my entire life.
My relationship with sculpture began in high school, where my art classes focused on body casting. That early work still echoes through my practice today, a fascination with form, texture, and the human relationship to material.
What has always drawn me in is the juxtaposition between solid and fluid. Fabric has been a recurring theme throughout my life and work. When fabric is carved into marble, it appears soft and flowing, yet it is completely rigid. It holds movement still - freezing a moment in time.
I went on to study sculpture in college before changing direction into design and marketing, eventually moving into the corporate world as a project manager. Even then, I continued working with fabrics. Looking back, fabric has been a constant thread throughout everything I’ve done.
Years later, while searching for artwork for my own home, I decided to experiment with plaster - simply to play, with no expectation. I shared the process on Instagram. Around the same time, I was painting directly onto wedding jackets. That experimentation naturally evolved into selling plaster works, and for the past five years, the practice has continued to grow and shift organically.
Much of my inspiration comes from noticing small, often overlooked moments - peeling paint on a wall, subtle textures, quiet imperfections. I’m drawn to things that feel insignificant at first glance, but become beautiful when you really pay attention.
There’s a particular feeling I return to again and again: lying in bed, sheets softly rustled, wanting time to pause just a little longer. My work is an attempt to hold onto that feeling.
My Work
The pieces are not meant to dominate a space. They are there to complement the room, to fill space without demanding attention. There is no drama - only support for the environment around them.
The work encourages slowness. Presence. A gentle invitation to notice and appreciate the small details that often go unseen. It’s grounding.
I’m drawn to raw, tactile, natural materials. The pieces are not flat, they are textural, dimensional, and responsive. As the light shifts throughout the day, the work transforms with it. Shadows soften, deepen, and move, revealing new details depending on the time, the season, and the space it lives in.
In this way, the work asks the same thing of the viewer that I ask of myself: to slow down and notice. Just as beauty reveals itself in peeling paint, rumpled sheets, or quiet imperfections, it also emerges gradually in my artwork. What feels subtle at first becomes meaningful when you pay attention.
The work doesn’t change all at once. It unfolds - rewarding presence, patience and an appreciation for the small details that are always there, waiting to be noticed.
Artist Statement
Kimberly George-Locke is a mixed media contemporary artist, inspired by noticing moments that feel insignificant at first but feel beautiful when you pay attention. Working intuitively, she allows the materials to guide her - creating draped, statement artworks that echoes the lived in and comforting emotion of tussled blankets on a Sunday morning. Drawn to raw, tactile and natural materials her work invites viewers to reflect on the fleeting moments of life.
Having worked with leading experts in the design industry, Kim’s work has been featured in a range of top-level projects and sold internationally. Her work has been seen in publications such as Interiors and World of Interiors. Her work can be viewed publicly at the Dallas Highland Hotel in Dallas Texas and Leo Restaurant in Annapolis Maryland.
Currently, Kim is working on a new series of works inspired by her equestrian background, exploring the tactile nature of leather and the stories it holds. Her work remains minimal, integrating color and rich natural textures bringing warmth to her work allowing the light and shadow of the surrounding environment to harmonize with the work.
Featured Shows:
2024 | White & Texture : Monochrome Unity | Cultural Center of Cape Cod Group Show | Explores the profound subtleties and striking complexities of using white as the driving color and how texture within the white and informs the execution and the narrative of an artwork
2021 | Winter Memories | Anne Arundel County Arts Council Group Show | Recreating special winter memories, and reminding visitors of the beauty of the season
2021 | Wonders of Water | Anne Arundel County Arts Council Group Show | Water is immensely powerful. It is essential to life, yet capable of causing destruction and chaos. We admire its dynamic properties from the way it ebbs and flows to loud crashing waves and serene moments of calm and stillness. Water can be all of these things and more. This exhibit offers artists an opportunity to be inspired by the wonders of water.